This volume aims to situate Virginia Woolf as a writer who, despite her fame as a leading modernist, also drew on a rich literary and cultural heritage. The chapters in this volume explore the role her family heritage, literary tradition and heritage locations play in Woolf’ s works, uncovering the influence the past had on her work, and particularly her deep indebtedness to the Victorian period in the process. It looks at how she reimagined heritage, including her queer readings of the past. This volume also aims to examine Woolf’ s own literary legacy: with essays examining her reception in Romania, Poland and France and her impact on contemporary writers like Alice Munro and Lidia Yuknavitch. Lastly, Woolf’ s standing in the increasingly popular field of biofiction is explored. The collection features an extended chapter on Virginia Woolf’ s relationship with her cousin H.A.L. Fisher by David Bradshaw, and an extended chapter by Laura Marcus on Woolf and the concept of shame.

Anne Reus is a PhD student at Leeds Trinity University. Her thesis examines Virginia Woolf’ s representations of nineteenth-century women writers, focusing on the ways in which Victorian biographical narratives mediate Woolf’ s responses to them, and the impact this has on her conception of female professional authorship.

Jane de Gay is a member of the Editorial Board of the Woolf Studies Annual. She gave the Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture (for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain) on ‘ Virginia Woolf and the Clergy’ in 2009 and was an invited plenary speaker at the 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University, Ohio, June 2007.

Tom Breckin is a PhD student at Leeds Trinity University, working on a thesis that explores Virginia Woolf’ s literary connections with the Victorian era. The research focuses particularly on Woolf’ s relationship with Sir Leslie Stephen, as both her father and as a fellow writer. Tom was co-organizer of the 26th Annual Virginia Woolf conference on ‘ Virginia Woolf and Heritage’ at Leeds Trinity University 16-19 June 2016.

Heritage SpacesMaggie Humm – Virginia Woolf and the Artistic Heritage of St. IvesAnn Martin – “The little bit of power I had myself ”: Lady Lasswade’s Shifting Sense of Place in The YearsMarlowe A. Miller – Through the Arch: The Country House and the Tradition of English Tyranny in Woolf ’s Between the ActsLeslie Kathleen Hankins – Heritage Hoarding: Artifacts, Archives, and Ambiguity, or, the Saga of Virginia Woolf ’s Standing DeskHana Leaper – “Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”: Vanessa Bell’s Death of the Moth Dust Jacket as Monument to Virginia Woolf

Modernism and HeritageSavannah Pignatelli – Resetting the Type: An Exploration of the Historical Sense in Mrs. DallowayJeanne Dubino – Kenya Colony and the Kenya Novel: The East African Heritage of “A Very Fine Negress” in A Room of One’s OwnVara Neverow – Leonard Woolf ’s Fear and Politics: A Debate at the Zoo: Satirical Heritage as Apocalyptic ProphecyDiane F. Gillespie – Virginia Woolf and the War on Books: Cultural Heritage and Dis-Heritage in the 1930sMary Anthony, Carly Carman, Malyn Maloney, Emma Slotterback – Gender Roles and the War Machine: An Undergraduate Roundtable on Virginia Woolf ’s Legacies

Writing Lives and HistoriesHeidi Stalla – The Play of Fact and Fiction in Virginia Stephen’s “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn”Ella Ophir – “Writing the history of my own times”: Virginia Woolf and the DiaryKristin Czarnecki – Heritage, Legacy, and the Life-Writing of Woolf and RhysLaura Cernat – Life as Legacy: Truth, Fiction, and Fidelity of Representation in Biographical Novels Featuring Virginia WoolfAnne-Laure Rigeade – From the Author to the Icon: A Heritage of Virginia Woolf in French Biographies and BiofictionsLucy Smith – Flights of Archival Imagination: Woolf ’s Transcendent
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